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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"presettlement"”.
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Vegetation community change over decadal and century scales in the North Carolina piedmont
… data from colonial survey records, I study presettlement forest communities of the Piedmont and attempt to reconstruct Piedmont forests as they may have been in the time before European arrival. The pattern of successional change in southeastern United States Piedmont forests has been …
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Stand dynamics and disturbance history of five oak -dominated old -growth stands in the unglaciated Appalachian Plateau
… tallies from 18th century land surveys show that presettlement forests in the study areas were oak-dominated forests. Quercus alba was, at minimum, twice as abundant as Q. velutina, the second ranked species. Acer saccharum and Fagus grandifolia were among the top ten ranked species at each site; …
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A stable isotope and macro-charcoal sediment record spanning the Pleistocene-Holocene transition from Maple Pond in the southern Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA
… low-intensity fire regimes characteristic of presettlement fire-adapted Appalachian forests. Geochemical and fire history patterns at Maple Pond demonstrate broad consistency with paleoenvironmental reconstructions from nearby sites (Browns Pond, Spring (aka Hack) Pond, Twin Pond and Cranberry …
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Vegetation distribution and site relationships in an Appalachian oak forest in southwest Virginia
… composition of forest stands when compared to presettlement forests may be attributed to selective logging practices and to the demise of American chestnut.
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A Denroecological Analysis of Disturbance of Remnant Pinus Palustris, Southeastern Virginia
… at the northernmost extent of its range. During presettlement times, this species occurred throughout the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of Virginia in pure and mixed stands, covering 607,000 hectares. This forest type has since been reduced to 81 hectares or 0.01% of its former range. Around 5,000 …